An Honest Search for What the Bible Really Says about Women in Leadership:
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
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For over 3 1/2 years, I researched what the Bible says about women in church leadership. I didn't have a conclusion when I started out. I just wanted to understand what the Bible says about the topic and sort through all the scholarly debates on all sides. I write about all of this in my new book From Genesis to Junia: An Honest Search for What the Bible Really Says about Women in Leadership. And I sum up my book in this epiosde.
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| 0:00.0 | Portland! I know you are hearing this because my data guy tells me that you're one of my top cities for downloads. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, I will be in your neighborhood March 8th and 9th, 2026 for the Portland Faith, Sexuality, and Gender Conference, and I am hoping to see you there. |
| 0:16.0 | The full conference is designed to equip pastors, educators, and church leaders to engage the LGBTQ conversation |
| 0:22.6 | with grace and truth. You'll also have the option to register for just the two and a half hour |
| 0:27.7 | introduction to the LGBTQ conversation that's taking place the first evening on Sunday, March 8th. |
| 0:33.6 | Just head over to centerforfaith.com forward slash events and select the Portland |
| 0:38.7 | conference. We also have incredible group pricing so you can bring along your friends and |
| 0:43.5 | fellow pastors and church staff. Okay. So once again, that's centerforfaith.com events forward |
| 0:49.4 | slash events to sign up for the faith, sexuality, and gender conference on March 8th and March 9th. |
| 1:00.1 | Can women serve in positions of leadership in the church? |
| 1:04.5 | This is a topic I've been interested in for a long time, but I haven't studied it out for myself until recently. As many of you know, I know |
| 1:12.8 | many of you have been following my journey as I've talked about it on the podcast, but over the |
| 1:17.2 | last three and a half plus years, I have been spending loads of time researching, thinking |
| 1:22.5 | through and writing about the topic of women in church leadership. And I've documented my journey in this conversation |
| 1:30.5 | in my forthcoming book from Genesis to Junia and on a search for what the Bible really says |
| 1:35.5 | about women and leadership. If you're watching on YouTube, here is the cover. I thought it |
| 1:40.5 | turned out pretty cool. Shout out to whoever designed this over at David C. Cook. |
| 1:45.3 | Got a team over there that I think did a really good job on the cover. |
| 1:49.4 | And it comes out, yeah, March 3rd. |
| 1:51.2 | You can pre-order it now. |
| 1:52.4 | And what I want to do in this podcast is I want to read my introduction to the book |
| 1:57.9 | and then summarize the contents. |
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